Regarding to your question on legacy BIOS.
1. vesamenu.c32 or menu.32 are graphic library to display PXE menu.
Normally if you don't provide these files, you will not able to see PXE menu.
2. Use kernel or linux parameter is depend on your GRUB bootloader
command. You can try to load the kernel without initrd/initramfs/rootfs to make
sure your kernel able to load from network. After you able to load the kernel,
you will hit kernel panic as kernel unable to find rootfs.
3. 3. "hard,tcp,intr" they are nfs parameter. If your server side use nfs
v3 the you need to specify "nfsroot=192.168.1.2:/srv/rootfs,nfsvers=3".
4. Make sure you only have one DHCP service running. If you use router,
turn off the DHCP service on your router. Another way just put static IP
address for your board in dhcpd.conf. if you want to have another DHCP server
running then you need to use proxyDHCP on your PXE server.
a. Example for configure static IP in DHCP server.
host myboard {
hardware ethernet 00:0A:A1:B2:C3:;
fixed-address 192.168.1.1;
}
5. Your kernel wait for "removable media"? Are you include
initramfs/initrd? Actually you can remove initramfs/initrd if you want to use
NFS boot. Can you check LED on Ethernet port. If blink the your network is up.
Try to ping to your target device to make sure your network is working.
Regards,
Alim Hussin
From: Raymond Yeung [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2018 12:43 PM
To: Hussin, Mohamad Noor Alim <[email protected]>;
[email protected]
Subject: Re: PXE Boot NFS not working
Thanks a lot Alim for the detail step-by-step, for both modes. I'd like to
stay with legacy mode with pxelinux.0 for now. I'm doing pretty much the same
as what you described below, with exceptions -
1. I'm not using vesamenu.c32. Instead menu.32 is used, though I don't
think that would be an issue.
2. I use "kernel image/bzImage" instead of "linux image/bzImage". Still
this shouldn't be an issue.
3. With the "append" line, I've a question - what is the significance of the
options "hard, tcp, intr"? I currently don't use them.
Since my last email this morning, I'd made some progress -
1. I figured out how to reconfigure the kernel with bitbake menuconfig to
change my Ethernet driver from .ko to part of kernel.
2. I now have a confusing situation, due to Avahi-daemon in the mix.
PXEBoot would request IP address via DHCP. Then when this NFS boot runs, it
too uses DHCP, and allocates a different IP address. I suppose this is fine,
so long as I've enough IP address to spare. However, Avahi-daemon also request
IP address and get the board yet another IP address. I've yet to figure out
how to turn off Avahi-daemon. And NFS boot still doesn't work (I don't see the
mount point with "df -h").
3. Client side uses NFS v4.1 while server side uses v3. Would this be a
problem? I suppose there must be backward compatibility built into NFS.
Also, in the "Append" line of pxelinux.cfg/default, I add nfsrootdebug. What
sort of NFS debugs should I see? I only see two NFS logs, and 4 RPC calls. Is
there anyway to turn up the verbosity so I know how NFS client fails?
Until I get some more insights to above, I'd proceed to investigate the other
issue - why my kernel initialization would need to wait for any "removable
media" indefinitely, and see if I could fix/change this.
Thanks,
Raymond
________________________________
From: Hussin, Mohamad Noor Alim
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2018 8:30 PM
To: Raymond Yeung; [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: RE: PXE Boot NFS not working
You are using PXE with legacy BIOS as you use pxelinux.0 . To configure PXE
with legacy BIOS follow these instruction
Note: PXE server IP = 192.168.1.2
Target IP = 192.168.1.1
On PXE server
1. make sure DHCP, NFS & TFTP services are up and running.
2. change the filename "pxelinux.0"; in /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf. Then
restart your DHCP service.
3. Put your kernel to /path/to/tftpboot/image/ and extract your rootfs to
/srv/rootfs/.
4. Create a file in /path/to/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default. The content
should like this
include menu.cfg
default vesamenu.c32
prompt 0
timeout 5
label Manual Netboot genericx86-64
menu label Netboot genericx86-64
linux image/bzImage
append root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=192.168.1.2:/srv/rootfs,hard,tcp,intr ip=dhcp
if you want to use PXE with GRUB, bootx64.efi, you need to enable UEFI instead
of legacy BIOS in BIOS configuration. Follow these instruction.
on PXE server
1. make sure DHCP, NFS & TFTP services are up and running.
2. change the filename "bootx64.efi"; in /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf. Then
restart your DHCP service.
3. Put your kernel to /path/to/tftpboot/image/ and extract your rootfs to
/srv/rootfs/.
4. If you want to get into GRUB,
a. comment the commands from /path/to/tftpboot/grub/grub.cfg to avoid
grub automatically load the kernel from network.
b. On GRUB, press "TAB" key to list available command. Or you can try use
this command
i. net_bootp
ii. linux
(tftp,pxeserverip)/image/bzImage root=/dev/nfs rw
nfsroot=192.168.1.2:/srv/rootfs,hard,tcp,intr ip=dhcp
iii. boot
5. if you want boot automatically to NFS, create a file called grub.cfg
in /path/to/tftpboot/grub.cfg. your grub.cfg should look like this
Set timeout 5
menuentry " genericx86-64" {
linux image/bzImage root=/dev/nfs rw
nfsroot=192.168.1.2:/srv/rootfs,hard,tcp,intr ip=dhcp
initrd image/initrd
}
6. When your device boot, it will download bootx64.efi and the message
something like this
>>Start PXE over IPv4.
Station IP address is 192.168.1.1
Server IP address is 192.168.1.2
NBP filename is bootx64.efi
NBP filesize is 1137016 Bytes
Downloading NBP file...
NBP file downloaded successfully.
Please note that I did not use initramfs or initrd as my kernel already have
network module build-in. To build your kernel with network module, you need to
know which module need to build-in into your kernel. Simply boot your device
using *.hhdimg from USB stick. Then check loaded kernel module from your device.
$ lsmod
Find the module something with network. Yes it is a little bit tricky.
Build your kernel in host machine.
$ bitbake virtual/kernel -c menuconfig
A menu will popup and search your kernel module using key "/". Make sure symbol
module [*] indicate build-in.
$ bitbake virtual/kernel
You also can create a kernel bundle with initramfs. Read this
https://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/2.5/mega-manual/mega-manual.html#building-an-initramfs-image.
Maybe need to ask someone who are expert on kernel development on how to enable
build-in kernel module.
Regards,
Alim Hussin
From: Raymond Yeung [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2018 1:12 AM
To: Hussin, Mohamad Noor Alim
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>;
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: Re: PXE Boot NFS not working
Follow-up to my previous post, after seeing the reply below suggesting me not
to use initramfs (but initrd is usable, right?). BTW, I don't use bootx64.efi.
Instead, I use pxelinux.0 along with the other lib***.c32 files.
1. Is there a way to verify if GRUB (that I'm using) supports networking or
not? It seems to have very limited user commands available.
2. How do I get into GRUB? I'd been into GRUB, more like accidentally. The
reply below refers to grub.cfg. Is this cfg file stored on target, or on host
(like pxelinux.cfg)?
3. How do I configure my build (and what yocto tool to use, if any) in order
to get my network driver part of kernel, instead of being a LKM that isn't
there when I need it for NFS boot?
________________________________
From: Hussin, Mohamad Noor Alim
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2018 12:26 AM
To: Raymond Yeung; [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: RE: PXE Boot NFS not working
Refer to my post here
https://lists.yoctoproject.org/pipermail/yocto/2018-April/040860.html
Don't use initramfs/initrd as it not working.
Regards,
Alim Hussin
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